This document describes Celery 2.4. For development docs, go here.

celery.bin.celeryd

celeryd

-c, --concurrency

Number of child processes processing the queue. The default is the number of CPUs available on your system.

-f, --logfile

Path to log file. If no logfile is specified, stderr is used.

-l, --loglevel

Logging level, choose between DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, or FATAL.

-n, --hostname

Set custom hostname.

-B, --beat

Also run the celerybeat periodic task scheduler. Please note that there must only be one instance of this service.

-Q, --queues

List of queues to enable for this worker, separated by comma. By default all configured queues are enabled. Example: -Q video,image

-I, --include

Comma separated list of additional modules to import. Example: -I foo.tasks,bar.tasks

-s, --schedule

Path to the schedule database if running with the -B option. Defaults to celerybeat-schedule. The extension ”.db” will be appended to the filename.

--scheduler

Scheduler class to use. Default is celery.beat.PersistentScheduler

-E, --events

Send events that can be captured by monitors like celerymon.

--purge, --discard

Discard all waiting tasks before the daemon is started. WARNING: This is unrecoverable, and the tasks will be deleted from the messaging server.

--time-limit

Enables a hard time limit (in seconds) for tasks.

--soft-time-limit

Enables a soft time limit (in seconds) for tasks.

--maxtasksperchild

Maximum number of tasks a pool worker can execute before it’s terminated and replaced by a new worker.

class celery.bin.celeryd.WorkerCommand(app=None, get_app=None)

enable_config_from_cmdline = True

get_options()

namespace = 'celeryd'

run(*args, **kwargs)

supports_args = False

celery.bin.celeryd.main()

celery.bin.celeryd.windows_main()